Musings

• Midstream Musings – we scale ourselves and return Sisyphus …

  • Shadowscape Episode 5, Part 2
    THE SHADOWSCAPE Copyright © 2025 John P. Healy (e)scape for free from reality – Remembrances of Energy Lords And Time, a maniac scattering dust,And Life, a Fury slinging flame.– “In Memoriam A. H. H.” Canto 50 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Episode 5, Part 2 [Draft 7-26-2025, more notes 8-2-2025. Added […]
  • The Shadowscape – Episode 5, Part 1
    THE SHADOWSCAPE Copyright © 2025 John P. Healy (e)scape for free from reality whether heaven or havenwill ever erase our blight,our myths impel us evenfurther on a cosmic flight – the gods need not take our sight … Episode 5, Part 1 [Draft 7-20-2025, 7-21-2025, 7-22-2025 added notes, 7-24-2025 added sketches […]
  • THE SHADOWSCAPE – Episode 4
    [draft 7-12-2025, more notes 7-15-2025] THE SHADOWSCAPE (e)scape for free from reality – Remembrances of Energy Lords Episode 4 “Erasure” (Easy clarity) [TBS context description] [Scene TBS][Image] [The series host “Rod” walks into the scene, faces the camera, and makes a brief monolog.] “Witness Sam Towers, newbie congressman, striving to […]
  • THE SHADOWSCAPE – Episode 3
    [draft 7-7-2025, additional notes 7-10-2025] THE SHADOWSCAPE (e)scape for free from reality Episode 3 “Disarming charm ” (Beyond a shadow of doubt) [SoCal. Midday. Large interior work area on floor of a dated office building. A casually dressed man works in his cubicle. The far side of the work area […]
  • THE SHADOWSCAPE – Episode 2
    [draft 7-3-2025, added more notes. 7-15-2025 added another scene sketch.] THE SHADOWSCAPE (e)scape for free from reality in moving from low to high,we see our pathway as true,and that we are in the right.yet forever left nearby,as if they are out of view,still the shadows of the night– the gods […]
  • Comment on Ditbit’s Guide to Blending in with AIs by jph
    Will superintelligent, powerful AIs entertain doubt? Or seduce us into blind faith? Numb us intellectually & emotionally, or nurture our questions & agency? Here's a young voice reminding us of the importance of critical thinking … the power & peril of doubt … "the world will change whether you do […]
  • Comment on Ditbit’s Guide to Blending in with AIs by jph
    This Wired interview – with the author of Nexus [2024] – explores the future of coexisting with AIs. I found this theme particularly interesting: the role of storytelling in human evolution. • Wired > The Big Interview (video) > "Yuval Noah Harari Sees the Future of Humanity, AI, and Information" […]
  • Comment on Ditbit’s Guide to Blending in with AIs by jph
    Peddling AI faces a legacy of Hollywood dystopian dramas. Not something which favors AI companies facing regulation or litigation – when AI goes bad. So, the charm campaign has begun, as noted in this article (below) – to shift perceptions in popular culture. Tales of sharing our agency … "don't […]
  • Comment on Fox and the ants – a 21st century fable by jph
    One perspective on this fable is that the crow stayed rooted in trickle down moral obligation. The belief that moral attachment abates by ranked kinship circles. By increasing distance between neighborhoods. The fox learned that being a neighbor meant aligning widely with others. Unlike the crow, he saw kinship as […]
  • Comment on Ditbit’s Guide to Blending in with AIs by jph
    Two articles with a similar theme of "human agency in an age of synthetic fluency." What are the implications of blending our agency with AIs? Is this a negotiation in which there's mutuality? Some shared alignment. Or is it wishful thinking, as this article suggests, because "there is no one […]